The Madras High Court ruled that the government cannot discriminate in approving maternity benefits, including for third pregnancies. A div...

West Asia War: Iran's leadership has changed dramatically. The Supreme Leader is gone, and the military commanders now hold the real power....

Iran has executed two more members of the People's Mujahedin group. Authorities state they were hanged for spying for Israel. These hanging...

Under the changes adopted on 13 November, a new Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has been given powers over constitutional cases, replaci...

CJI BR Gavai, during a felicitation by the Maharashtra legislature, highlighted BR Ambedkar's emphasis on the Constitution's supremacy. Amb...

"At times, calibrated attempts are being made from both inside and outside the country to tell the world that the Indian judiciary is in cr...

Opposition down the decades has been on three grounds: one, barrier to local language(s); two, disincentivising members of the lower judici...

As per the Constitution, the apex court has no administrative powers over high courts or the district judiciary, the latter left to the hig...

The CJI said the judiciary must be completely free of all pressures if it was to act as a check on governmental power. The judiciary cannot...

Welcome judicial action to check executive excess

Central government attempt to exert control over judiciary by trying to replace the collegium system is not in consonance with the spirit o...

Gowda, while speaking at Independence Day celebrations at the Supreme Court, said there were groups of people disturbing the peace of the s...

The amending power of Parliament was not absolute and was limited and it could not destroy the basic structure of the constitution, he said.

“I have in the last 20 yrs fought for independence of judiciary. It is one subject which is non-negotiable at any cost,” says CJI Lodha.

Prasad hinted that the Modi govt will rework on a constitutional amendment bill introduced by the previous dispensation which seeks to give...

The judiciary’s job is to interpret the law, and it would do well not to usurp the functions of the executive whose prerogative is to make ...

It is the judiciary which makes the executive legally responsible to the people for its actions, Chief Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrish...